The Tous à l'opéra! initiative, which for 15 years has been organizing open days in around thirty lyrical houses and companies, will highlight French instrumental craftsmanship in May, in full environmental awareness in the milieu.
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From the Opéra de Vichy to the Opéra de Paris, via the Opéra National de Bordeaux, several meetings with luthiers and cabinetmakers, as well as presentations of instruments, some of which are period, will be organized for the little ones. and adults during these days (May 6 to 8).
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Environmental awareness
Beyond raising awareness of instrument making, experts point to an increasingly tangible environmental awareness.
"It is mentioned very strongly in the community because certain components of wind instruments are already impacted by international regulations"
on chemicals, explains Carole Le Rendu, director of ITEMM (European Technological Institute for Music Professions ) during the Tuesday presentation of the 2022 edition.
“There is the question of keywork (set of keys) on clarinets and all wind instruments, with nickel starting to become problematic.
We have to anticipate that
,” she said.
“There is also the question of ebony and other exotic woods and obviously ivory is in question”
.
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"try to work on wind instruments, while keeping the same acoustic quality, with local woods that are not imported"
, specifies Carole Le Rendu, indicating that it "would be less expensive to produce".
The ITEMM has already made guitars out of flax fibers from Normandy last August.
Reconnect with the popular experiences of the event
The participants in
Tous à l'Opéra
, whose sponsor this year is the conductor Nathalie Stutzmann, will reconnect with the popular experiences of this event, such as stage make-up sessions, the creation of jewellery, embroidery or wigs. , backstage tours, or even public dance bars.
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After two years of pandemic, the president of La Réunion des Opéras de France, which organizes the event, Patrick Thil, affirmed that
“we are not having trouble filling our rooms, but getting people to re-subscribe. at the opera"
, an observation that has been made by many live performance halls.
He also noted
“a revival of heritage opera, with recreations of baroque operas that have been lost sight of;
and contemporary French operas, it must be admitted that they are rarer than in the 70s and 80s”
.